Curse

nytestalker · Jan 18, 2007, 03:19 AM // 03:19

:/ Maybe I got my facts wrong.

But if (making up numbers)

30 people made chapter 1.

And now, half the team is working on chapter 4. And the other half is on chapter 5.

Who is left to work on the live servers?

Theres only 2 halves to a whole after all.

PhsycoTimmay · Jan 18, 2007, 03:24 AM // 03:24

Where'd you get those numbers? and where did you hear about chapter 5?

ElinoraNeSangre · Jan 18, 2007, 03:28 AM // 03:28

The company has hired more people and become larger since ch. 1.

Issac · Jan 18, 2007, 03:32 AM // 03:32

Well they came up to Ch4 so im guessing theres gann be a Ch 5 also lol.

Seffapotamus · Jan 18, 2007, 03:33 AM // 03:33

Yep, it was essentially a different team who made factions. Then the prophecies team did NF. So ch4 should be comprised of mostly factions devs.

Teger · Jan 18, 2007, 03:46 AM // 03:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seffapotamus

Yep, it was essentially a different team who made factions. Then the prophecies team did NF. So ch4 should be comprised of mostly factions devs.

its rather supriseing how many people dont understand this...the factions team and the NF team BOTH did proph. After proph, they split up into 2 teams, and hired some more people to fill in the gaps, thus statements (although you arnt saying this, Iv seen too many people with this mindset) such as "only buy odd chapters cause the proph team makes them! The factions team sucks!!!11eleven!!!!" arnt true.

Sorry about the minor rant, it just irks me...

Priest Of Sin · Jan 18, 2007, 04:14 AM // 04:14

In case the Factions team is reading this...

NO MORE EXPLODE-EY ENEMIES, IT'S NOT FUN WITH AN ASSASSIN.

Thankyew.

Gregslot · Jan 18, 2007, 05:08 AM // 05:08

Ok, i dont think only 30 people work at A.net

Smile Like Umean It · Jan 18, 2007, 05:15 AM // 05:15

lol. he already stated that he was making up the numbers.

I Phoenix I · Jan 18, 2007, 05:16 AM // 05:16

To the Factions team: NO MORE 2-GROUP MISSIONS! Henchies > Humans -.-

VGJustice · Jan 18, 2007, 05:30 AM // 05:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by I Phoenix I

NO MORE 2-GROUP MISSIONS!

I tend to agree -_-U

And did you guys forget that there was a team that developed Sorrow's Furnace? That was the team that made Nightfall, if I understand the system correctly. And I'm fairly sure there's a third "bugfix" team that works on keeping things running smoothly between chapters.*

*not an actual fact

Alleji · Jan 18, 2007, 05:30 AM // 05:30

To the Factions team:

No more sewer-towns spanning half the campaign!

No more ****ing locked gates!

In fact, just /rage your job. Thx.

Paperfly · Jan 18, 2007, 10:25 AM // 10:25

For the ten billionth time, the "team" split is not that absolute. Rather, specialists in whatever field's currently in crunch mode will get pulled over to the current "active" project as needed.

e.g. The need for concept artists for Chapter 4 is (I'd imagine) long past, so they'd presumably be moved over to working on (a hypothetical) Chapter 5 by now. Whereas voice actors aren't needed until pretty much the very end of the development cycle.

Oh, and to any Factions team members reading - you made my favourite Guild Wars expansion so far, so thanks! The exploding Afflicted was a bad decision on your part, though.

*Darcy* · Jan 18, 2007, 10:49 AM // 10:49

I imagine that there is a lot of crossover between the dev teams as each chapter is a year in the making. People seem to confuse the time frame for chapter development and the time frame for chapter release. ANet is using a staggered dev/release system.

Roughly it would go like this.

April 2006 - release Factions, begin Chapter 4
Oct 2006 - release Nightfall, begin Chapter 5
? 2007 - release Chapter 4, begin Chapter 6

And when they need a "let's have fun" break, they tweak the existing chapters, so they can drive us crazy and/or relieve any boredom that has set in for the player community.

And any unreleased chapters are speculation on our part. ANet is unlikely to announce ahead of time the end of any new chapters for GW.

immortius · Jan 18, 2007, 11:20 AM // 11:20

The "Making of Guild Wars" DVD that came with the GW:NF CE is somewhat informative on the teams. And I do remember that a bit before NF came out it was stated that they had two teams working on chapters and a third "live" team working on the events and such.

Bankai · Jan 18, 2007, 01:36 PM // 13:36

So... what do you mean with "Work on the live servers"?

Avarre · Jan 18, 2007, 01:40 PM // 13:40

This thread needs more solid information before it deserves to exist.